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Industry 4.0 Technology and Employees Behavior Interaction in Serbian Industrial Companies

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On the threshold of the 4th industrial revolution this survey is aimed to survey technology and employees behavior interaction, due to the fact that previous research has shown that this topic is not surveyed enough. For instance, recent advances in ICT have allowed manufacturing enterprises to use remotely controlled decentralized manufacturing processes and have led to development of different types of interfaces in the framework of industry 4.0. This paper examines data collected in 119 industrial companies. Modern technology latent variable is described by technological dimensions such as level of automation, level of IT application, and technological level against competitors, while employees behavior concept is described by employees’ pro-activity/reactivity, interpersonal relations, collectivism/individualism and decentralization. Statistical examination included descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, factor and reliability analysis. Results show that variables are appropriately described with significant correlation between examined constructs. It could be concluded that upgrading of technological levels forces employment of proactive people with soft culture in industrial companies.

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This work is supported by grant TR35017, Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MESTD).

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    Vesna K. Spasojevic Brkic, Zorica A. Veljkovic & Andrija Petrovic

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Spasojevic Brkic, V.K., Veljkovic, Z.A., Petrovic, A. (2020). Industry 4.0 Technology and Employees Behavior Interaction in Serbian Industrial Companies. In: Nunes, I. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 959. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20040-4_9

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